I'm not sure about inflation protection, do you mean receiving rewards for held stakepower over time?

STEEM pays 90% of inflation into the vested steem pool, which looks like "interest" on vested steem / steem power. Apparently WLS doesn't do that, so effectively vested WLS are losing value due to inflation.

If you don't want the tokens then you're free to sell them as you see fit, I wouldn't let the economic policies get in the way of claiming your sharedrop. I'm sure people would be interested in picking up some cheap WLS on the BTS DEX.

I don't think it's impossible to change the economic policies through future hard forks, but steemit doesn't pay interest on steem power neither, you can only earn with your vote weight through curation rewards, no?

I'm not sure about inflation protection, do you mean receiving rewards for held stakepower over time?

STEEM pays 90% of inflation into the vested steem pool, which looks like "interest" on vested steem / steem power. Apparently WLS doesn't do that, so effectively vested WLS are losing value due to inflation.

If you don't want the tokens then you're free to sell them as you see fit, I wouldn't let the economic policies get in the way of claiming your sharedrop. I'm sure people would be interested in picking up some cheap WLS on the BTS DEX.

I don't think it's impossible to change the economic policies through future hard forks, but steemit doesn't pay interest on steem power neither, you can only earn with your vote weight through curation rewards, no?

I remember an article that explained the differences to Steem and the reasoning behind them....I'll have to look it up to see if it's any help

BTW for anyone hesitating, there's no export/import of BTS private keys to claim your sharedrop - you just need to acquire 1 WLS and send it to the sharedrop claim account with your personal memo attached & you'll get your owed stake within a couple mins on the whaleshares network!

This second claim period will run for 30 days and end on October 25 at 23:59:59 UTC. Claims will be subject to a 5% reduction during this second claim period. Example: If your original sharedrop was 100 WLS, you will now receive 95 WLS.

There's still a large amount of BTS users yet to claim their sharedrop; this isn't a traditional snapshot/key-import sharedrop, you can't put off claiming for years - act before its too late to claim your sharedrop!